Would you recommend the product? Yes |
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Pros:

First ingredient is a named meat product, uses good quality ingredients throughout.

Cons:

High apparent grain content.

The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product in meal form. A single meat ingredient followed by three grains is not normally adequate to give us confidence in the amount of meat included in the food, however, in this particular case the manufacturer states that "Meat proteins make up over 40% of the ingredients in each production batch of Nature’s Variety". We have been assured that this is the dry weight. It is on this basis that the food has been awarded a 5-star rating.

There are further meat ingredients (freeze dried) near the end of the ingredient list, but these are so far down as to make up trace amounts only.

The grain content of the food is barley, rice and oatmeal, all of which are decent quality grains. There are a range of vegetables in the food, and there is a good range of probiotics. The inclusion of a variety of eggs and organ meat is appreciated.

Note that this food uses citric acid as a preservative and should not be premoistened prior to feeding (a bloat risk factor for large breed dogs).